REGISTERING BIRTHS OF STILLBORNS

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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	16 Jan 2010 22:38
	The stillbirth register started in 1927 before that there would be no record of a stillbirth .
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 786 Send Message	Helen in Bucks	Report	16 Jan 2010 21:54
	there has been another thread about this recently I think it said that if the child was stillborn i.e. no breath taken at all, then its birth is registered on the stillbirth register separate from normal register and only able to be viewed by parents a baby that took a breath and then died would have both birth and death registered try search threads to see if you can find the previous thread
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 302 Send Message	Gai	Report	16 Jan 2010 20:31
	Thanks. Looks like we'll never know for sure then! Gai
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 302 Send Message	Gai	Report	16 Jan 2010 20:23
	The family story is that one of my ancestors actually had twin who either died in infancy or was stillborn. I have found one birth on the free bmd but only one. Does anyone know if either the birth or death of a stillborn child had to be registered? This was in the early 1920's. Gai